Gartner® Report: IAM Adapts to Secure and Enable AI Agents

Gartner's report "IAM Adapts to Secure and Enable AI Agents" highlights the evolving needs of identity and access management (IAM) as AI agents become more prevalent, emphasizing the importance of treating AI agents as first-class identities with unique credentials to prevent security and compliance issues. The report identifies areas like identity registration and credential management as underdeveloped, and recommends prohibiting the sharing of human credentials with AI agents to maintain a clear identity boundary. Descope's Agentic Identity Hub aligns with Gartner's recommendations by providing a comprehensive solution that includes OAuth 2.1-based consent and delegation, centralizing agent identity management, and enforcing policy-driven authorization to ensure least privilege access. The platform supports both workforce and customer-facing AI agents, offering a unified architecture while maintaining necessary data separation, and aims to address security gaps by enabling organizations to manage agentic identity securely and efficiently.